Michael Sheen should have a lock on the role when they make the movie. The speed of the divorce and her expertise as a geophysicist makes you wonder if she knew things he or BP didn't want to be generally known. I bet there wasn't an equal split on the retirement either, she probably got the gold mine and he got the shaft.

Why were senior BP execs never brought up on criminal charges? I don't think any of them learned squat from their mistakes. I also think BP is still cutting corners with safety and procedure, nothing's changed. They pay a fine and back to business as usual.

Jail time or break up the company. Something these execs would remember. Not boo hoo I had to give a speech or take a golden parachute.

Divorce for shamed BP chief Tony Hayward and the loyal wife who stood by him in wake of Deepwater Horizon disasterMaureen Fulton has been granted a divorce citing 'unreasonable behaviour'Came only months after she was leading fightback to restore his reputationThe oil spill forced him to resign from his £4million-a-year job

Generation_D:iron de havilland: Alphax: thisispete: I have no sympathy for the man, but it seems much of the vitriol towards BP did divert attention from the failure of government oversight.

As in the people whose jobs it was to oversee BP were in bed with BP's lobbyists. As in pounding the bedsprings with them.

Well, yes, as in the fact that it was very convenient for Halliburton, whose cement failure led to the disaster to be able to hand the blame to a company that used to be called British Petroleum.

This too. Speaking of execs needing to be criminally prosecuted.

There's a deep well still operating, Halliburton and its money with our government.

Wow.

That's the first time I've voiced that opinion on Fark. I think I may have been worried about being labelled a conspiracy theorist or troll, as the entirety of the American coverage of the event, including the picture of Obama looking sternly at Hayward, handed the blame solely to "British Petroleum" - never mind the fact that BP is internationally owned. I think at the time, 1% more of the shares were in British rather than American hands.

Not trying to say that Hayward's not a douche, or that BP doesn't bear a large part of responsibility, by the way. Always just annoyed me that they got all the flack for a disaster on a Transocean-rented rig with a Halliburton BOP.

OscarTamerz:Michael Sheen should have a lock on the role when they make the movie. The speed of the divorce and her expertise as a geophysicist makes you wonder if she knew things he or BP didn't want to be generally known. I bet there wasn't an equal split on the retirement either, she probably got the gold mine and he got the shaft.

iron de havilland:Not trying to say that Hayward's not a douche, or that BP doesn't bear a large part of responsibility, by the way. Always just annoyed me that they got all the flack for a disaster on a Transocean-rented rig with a Halliburton BOP.

Well they were the parent contractor, so they would have had final say in the operations of the rig. It was their job to make sure the production conformed to proper safety guidelines.

The part about the government oversight failing is valid. But you have to realize why Government oversight was so lax. Due to regulatory capture and a sympathetic majority in the legislative and executive branches at both the Federal and State levels, the oil companies pretty well did what the fark they wanted to do. For farks sake, a sitting Congressmen apologized to BP for the fact that they were brought before a Congressional hearing. I'm bet the same douche nozzle didn't do the same when the scientists were grilled over the few billion in grants for fusion research at the NIF.

And don't forget that years ago, the companies that fought for deep water drilling were supposed to form a consortium that could handle these very type of spills and blowouts. They were supposed to fund the consortium and develop the technology to rapidly respond to an emergency. This stated off with a nice a group and then quickly died once everyone stopped looking. Its why everyone sat around with thumbs up their ass trying to figure out to deal with the pressures, temperature and other issues with such deep water drilling. This was supposed to have been figured out in case of something exactly like deepwater horizon occurred. But it shaved a few hundreds of a percent of profit from their paltry billions of dollars a quarter record, so it just wasn't worth it. Better to risks a ecosystem than someone's new Porsche Cayenne and their country club dues.

iron de havilland:That's the first time I've voiced that opinion on Fark. I think I may have been worried about being labelled a conspiracy theorist or troll, as the entirety of the American coverage of the event, including the picture of Obama looking sternly at Hayward, handed the blame solely to "British Petroleum" - never mind the fact that BP is internationally owned. I think at the time, 1% more of the shares were in British rather than American hands.Not trying to say that Hayward's not a douche, or that BP doesn't bear a large part of responsibility, by the way. Always just annoyed me that they got all the flack for a disaster on a Transocean-rented rig with a Halliburton BOP.

Are we reading the same site? I heard both Halliburton and Transocean getting plenty of flack. And personally, after hanging around The Guardian site a little bit, I could give a fark about whether the Brits get wrongly blamed for something. The whole English landmass seems to have a thriving industry in obsessing over what Americans do, and how everything in the world is our fault. They were just as outraged that the U.S. has now banned BP from drilling new wells in our waters (for probably a very short time, knowing how these things work), but were just as quick to point out that BP does not belong to the Brits!!!! Whatever--the U.S. did something, therefore it must be wrong.

Essentially, it means that within 50 seconds of her filing for divorce, it was granted. No contest from Hayward on anything that was filed: reasons, property allocation, spousal support, child support and custody (if there were any). Not even Katie Holmes' quickie divorce was that fast. It shows that she had a dominating upper hand in this divorce; she's got some kind of horrendous dirt on him. And it's not photos him boinking a secretary. Something this fast, this sudden and this uncontested means she probably has proof of a) wrongdoing on Hayward's part over Deepwater (like memos telling him directly that platform's not structurally sound) or b) kiddie porn

I thought they've always been around in newspapers, especially ones with skinny columns*. A sentence could easily take up an inch or two of space in print, so they like to break it up so it's easier on the eyes to follow.

*I've never actually seen a copy of the Daily Mail in real life, so I don't know what their stories look like in print. I'm just speaking in general.

thisispete:I have no sympathy for the man, but it seems much of the vitriol towards BP did divert attention from the failure of government oversight.

I disagree. The price of a blowout preventer that would was garunteed to shear the pipe at a joint (instead of failing to do so like the one they used did) was another $2.5M over the price of the one they used. That's roughly equal to Hayward's bonus that year, not that the two have anything to do with each other, it's just shown for scale. It was a billion dollar well, they went cheap on the equipment and 12 guys died.